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J. WILSON. GAR STARTER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' JOHN WILSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CAR-STARTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 297,899, dated April 29, 1884. I

Application filed December 28, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN WILSON, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Oar- Starter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists of an improved contrivance of mechanism for storing up in a spring or springs the power employed to stop the car and utilizing the same for starting the car, the said contrivance being verysimple to construct and manipulate, and adapted to the practical use for which it is intended by the attention that a driver can readily give while managing thehorses; and my inven tion also consists of an improvement in the construction of friction drivers to be employed for winding up the springs from one of the axles when the car stops, for the purpose of utilizing the springs for stopping the car and starting it again, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a longitudinal section through the car and side elevation of my improved starter applied to it. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the oar-body and plan view of my improved starter.

I arrange a friction-drum, A, on each caraxle D, and another friction -drum, B, directly in front of it, fitting said drum B to turn loosely on a shaft, 6, that has eccentric pivots E in bearings of the frame P, and an arm, Q, that is connected by levers L M with the rod M of a foot-treadle, N, located above the platform I, so that pressure on the treadle will press the drum B on the drum A, to be turned thereby for Winding up springs 0, attached to drum B and the carframe, for a brake to stop the car, and for a means of storing the power expended in stoproller 0 on said drums A and B by the right foot. The springs 0 then turning drum B the reverse of the way it was turned by drum A, and driving back on drum A through the intermediate drum, 0, will start the car forward. Care must be taken by the driver to press down treadle K with the right foot to connect the drums A and B by the intermediate drum, 0, before releasing drum B from A by lifting the left foot from the treadle N, to keep drum B in connection with A and maintain the springs under tension until the connection for starting is made.

For securing the best effects for the frictional contactof the drums A B, I propose to construct them so that paper on one will run against iron on the other; and for this pur-,

pose I will construct each drum with part of of the other, whereby the best results will be obtained. The drum B has tubular extensions 1) beyond its ends along shaft 6, to which the inner ends of the springs O are connected, and the outer ends of said springs are connected to the cross-bar P of the car-frame.

I propose to arrange duplicate starting apparatus at each end of the car for like use, whichever Way the car runs. When the car has come to a standstill, the driver will immediately put on the ordinary brake, to hold the car until ready for starting, when he will throw ofi said brake. After he has applied pressure to treadle K, the car will then start forward.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is- I The combination, in a car'starter, of the drum A on the car-axle, spring-drum B on' the eccentric shaft 0, and the intermediate drum, 0, on the eccentric-shaft F, the said eccentric-shafts e and F being respectively connected with foot-treadles K N arranged to be manipulated by the driver, substantially as described.

JOHN WILSON.

W'itnesses:

B. J. TURNER, A. SCHNEIDER. 

